Claudia Castro Luna

is Washington State Poet Laureate, 2018-2020, and is working on a memoir about her experience escaping the Salvadoran civil war. She lives in Seattle.

July 1, 2019 at 2:03 pm

Immigrant children will forever live with trauma, as I have | Op-Ed

In El Salvador I was terrified of losing my parents, of being left alone with my younger sister.

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November 9, 2018 at 10:01 am

I see myself, and courage and hope, in the faces of the caravan | Op-Ed

I fled El Salvador as a youth in 1981 with my parents and sister The migrant caravan crossing Mexico is no threat to the United...

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